Fireproofing 'inadequate' at Japan nuclear reactors
- Published: 1 Jan 2013 at 14.46
- Online news: Asia
Japanese regulators have found inadequate fireproofing at more than one fifth of the nuclear reactors that went offline after the 2011 Fukushima crisis, a major daily said on Tuesday.
This file photo shows buildings of the crippled Fukushima Dai-ichi Nuclear power plant, seen through a bus window, in Ota, on December 29, 2012. Japanese regulators have found inadequate fireproofing at more than one fifth of the nuclear reactors that went offline after the 2011 Fukushima crisis, a major daily said on Tuesday.
The finding could delay their restart by several years in some cases, the Mainichi Shimbun said.
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